title: Characteristic findings of optical coherence tomography in retinal angiomatous proliferation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To identify the unique pathologic findings of retinal angiomatous proliferation (RAP) in optical coherence tomography (OCT).
  
  
  METHODS
  Retrospectively, 29 eyes of 25 patients with age-related macular degeneration and complicated RAP were analyzed. All 29 eyes had choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in the area of pigment epithelial detachment (PED) or adjacent to it, which was visible with fluorescein angiography or indocyanine green angiography. Cross-sectional images were obtained by OCT scanning through the CNV lesions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Six distinctive findings of OCT included drusen (100%), inner retinal cyst (80%), outer retinal cyst (68%), fibrovascular PED (84%), serous retinal detachment (40%), and PED (68%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Through analysis of OCT findings, we revealed six different types of lesions distinctive of RAP which may provide helpful diagnostic information for subsequent treatment and predicting the prognosis of RAP.
authors.affiliation: Myung-Gok Eye Research Institute, Konyang University Kim's Eye Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Eun-Hae
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Jung-Il
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Chul Gu
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sung Won
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Tae Gon
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012160:Retina / Q000473:pathology*; D015861:Retinal Neovascularization / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods*
keywords: Fibrovascular pigment epithelial detachment; Inner retinal cyst; Optical coherence tomography; Retinal angiomatous proliferation